Methane decomposition over Fe supported
catalysts for hydrogen and nano carbon yield

• Authors: Anis Hamza Fakeeha , Ahmed Aidid Ibrahim , Muhammad Awais Naeem , Wasim Ullah Khan , Ahmed Elhag Abasaeed , Raja L. Alotaibi , Ahmed Sadeq Al-Fatesh
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Production of hydrogen, being an environmentally
friendly energy source, has gained a lot of attention in the
recent years. In this article, iron-based catalysts, with
different active metal loadings, supported over magnesia
and titania are investigated for hydrogen production via
catalytic decomposition of methane. The catalytic activity
and stability results revealed that magnesia supported
catalysts performed better than titania supported
catalysts. Hydrogen reduction temperature of 500°C was
obtained suitable for catalyst activation. For magnesia
supported catalysts, only higher loadings i.e., 30% and
40% Fe-Mg catalysts showed reasonable activity, while all
titania supported catalysts presented less activity as well
as deactivation. Among all the catalysts, 30% Fe/MgO
catalyst displayed better activity. The formation of carbon
nanofibers was evidenced from morphological analysis.
FESEM and TEM images showed the generation of nonuniform
carbon nanofibers with broader diameter. The
catalysts were characterized using different techniques
such as BET, H2-TPR, O2-TPO, XRD, TGA, FESEM and TEM.

Keywords

EN

Activation; Carbon nanofibers; Fe loading; Hydrogen; Magnesia; Titania

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Catalysis for Sustainable Energy
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1

Dates

received

18 - 10 - 2015

online

31 - 12 - 2015

accepted

9 - 11 - 2015

Contributors

author

Anis Hamza Fakeeha

• Chemical
  Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud
  University P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

author

Ahmed Aidid Ibrahim

• Chemical
  Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud
  University P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

author

Muhammad Awais Naeem

• Chemical
  Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud
  University P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

author

Wasim Ullah Khan

• Chemical
  Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud
  University P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

author

Ahmed Elhag Abasaeed

• Chemical
  Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud
  University P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

author

Raja L. Alotaibi

• King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
  (KACST)

author

Ahmed Sadeq Al-Fatesh

• Chemical
  Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud
  University P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/cse-2015-0005